Utusan Group Open House, yesterday.

Iqram Dinzly! You jangan nak berlagak macam Mawi okay! Malu tau, Cik Nate sudah tertipu. Tapi I rasa you lagi handome dari Mawi. Tak rugi Cik Nate cakap Hi ketika melangkah keluar dari lift.

Nota: Tak nampak pun Mawi semalam. When i arrived, i was just in time to catch Imran Ajmain nyanyi lagi Seribu Tahun. Best. And then ada artis mana entah nama Sheila nyanyi lagu Raya. Ya ampun, Sheila sayang, go find yourself a sugar daddy and stop singing for good ok? Suara you mmg tak sedap! I think half of budak2 AF suara macam Sheila ni pun. Semalam banyak B grade punya artis. In other words, I cant find Pierre Andre. ;)

I really wanted to update last friday tentang how much I hate the word SEDONDON and families yang color-coordinate because most of the time the husbands will look out of place then aku buka fotopages my ex-boss alamak sedondon la pulak family dia eventhough I must say they look good in green (stay away from pink please!).

Lepas tu pulak later in the evening I received a phone call from an HR department of a big big company and I’m hired! The best part is that Cik Nate naik 2 pangkat dari my current job ini and they want me to come in as soon as possible and they’re willing to pay my current employer kalau tak dapat early release.

Wow, terlalu overwhelmed. Tetapi segalanya agak pantas berlaku menyebabkan Cik Nate pening sedikit memikirkan bagaimana my current boss will flip when she hears about this on Monday. But I have to take this job demi my own future yang sejak akhir-akhir ini semakin cerah dan cerah sehingga Cik Nate rasa takut untuk melangkah lebih jauh.

Berdansa di hujung gelisah. Yeah.

Kisah Nenda #1
Originally uploaded by natinski

"Bila nak kahwin?"

So I told her about my surpreme plan to marry a guy who makes his own biskut raya & sings off-key. "Kerja gomen ke?". Tak. Kerja biasa2 saja. Selepas Isya' hinggalah ke jam 12 malam, Nenda tidak berhenti bercakap. Menyesal aku cakap aku nak kahwin (well i had to tell her something). Aku juga menyesal kerana cakap aku mahu tido sebilik dengannya.

Jam 12:37 a.m. aku angkat kaki lari tido di bilik sebelah walaupun aku begitu takut untuk tido bersendirian, fearing that i'll bump into roh2 moyang / datuk aku (hanya mitos belaka).

Nenda kata bila umur sudah 30, dah tak laku. Aku cuma diam. Jis2 ceramah Nenda hanya berkisar tentang perkahwinan sahaja. Tak sia-sia aku punyai this capability untuk kosongkan minda dan block-out segala yang diperkatakannya.

(more to come tomorrow)

Hola, Cik Nate dah balik. I survived Kota Bharu!

I wrote so many things in my Moleskine and if I have time, I'll publish it here (oh you know you want to read my anecdotes tentang Kota Bharu).

Cuma sebelum itu, Cik Nate tersentak baca Harian Metro ini hari:
"PESERTA PROGRAM REALITI TV MAUT"

Joe Labi dari rancangan realiti TV Mencari Cinta sudah meninggal. Kemalangan jalanraya. Joe Labi si comic relief itu.. dah takde. I wrote few things about him here ketika Mencari Cinta tengah hangat ketika itu.

Semoga roh arwah dicucuri rahmat. Al-Fatihah.

Happy Eid!

Happy Eid!
Originally uploaded by natinski

Ok you guys, have a safe Hari Raya ok. My flight is tomorrow and I'm actually looking forward to spend some neurotic time in Kota Bharu.

Woohoo Kelate rawks! (walaupun panas macam neraka)

semalam aku menangis di sepanjang mrr2 sambil mendengar lagu raya black dog bone. just to let you know that i'm still having a hard time dealing with this whole ramadhan and looming Hari Raya thing. as you grow older, hari raya no longer brings any joy to some of us (maybe i'm an isolated case, but if you are experiencing the same thing arent you glad that i'm writing about this?). raya to me, means satu konsep paksaan. terpaksa balik kampung, sedangkan dalam masa setahun kita boleh mana-mana tarikh untuk bertemu sanak saudara yang semakin out of sight, out of mind. terpaksa beli baju baru, barang kemas baru, or else ppl will think you're not doing so well in life. Terpaksa menepis soalan2 cepu emas, di mana sekarang soalan itu dijawab umpama satu renungan kosong umpama aku tidak memahami bahasa melayu. Terpaksa explain kenapa badan naik, sebab di dalam family tree Idris tiada seorang pun badan berisi. terpaksa makan hati, sebab ahli keluarga berjaya mengelakkan diri daripada pulang berhari raya di kampung (ya, puasa hari ke-19, aku masih bitter dengan keputusan keluarga aku!).

apa kata kalau raya tahun ini aku lari sahaja ke mana-mana pulau? Tak boleh, tiket (mahal) sudah dibeli. Lagipun my only consolation would be comfort food - mana lagi aku nak cari authentic nasitumpangnasidagangnasiberlaukkuihtahiitiklompattikamkuihpianakuihakokayampercik itu? dan takkan aku nak miss sembahyang Raya (di mana selepas solat Cik Nate akan menanti dengan penuh setia anak-anak Sultan keluar masjid - Tengku Faiz kahwinilah aku!). Hehe.